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The name Fir Bolg is usually translated in the early literature as "men of bags". The Irish word fir means "men" and the word bolg/bolc can mean a belly, bag, sack, bellows, and so forth. Kuno Meyer and R. A. Stewart Macalister argue that the name comes from the term Fir i mBolgaib , meaning " breeches wearers", literally "men in (baggy ...
Eochaid mac Eirc - High King of Ireland, the last Fir Bolg king and the first king to establish a system of justice; Fiacha Cennfinnán - High King of Ireland; Fodbgen - High King of Ireland; Gaillimh iníon Breasail - mythical woman from whom the river and city of Galway derive their name; Gann and Genann - joint High Kings of Ireland
The High Kingship is established by the Fir Bolg, and their nine kings are succeeded by a sequence of nine kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann, most if not all of whom are considered euhemerised deities. After the Milesian (Gaelic) conquest the High Kingship is contested for centuries between the descendants of Eber Finn and Érimón , sons of Míl ...
The writers of Lebor Gabála Érenn sought to create an epic written history of the Irish comparable to that of the Israelites in the Old Testament of the Bible. [7] [8] This history was intended to fit the Irish into Christian world-chronology, [9] [10] to "find a place for Ireland in the Biblical history of the world". [7]
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Next, the Tuatha Dé Danann, who are usually supposed to have been the gods of the Goidelic Irish, defeated the Fir Bolg in the first Battle of Mag Tuired and took possession of Ireland. Because their king, Nuada Airgetlám , had lost an arm in the battle and was no longer physically whole, their first king in Ireland was the half-Fomorian Bres .
In Irish mythology Sreng (often misinterpreted as Streng) was a champion of the Fir Bolg or Men of Bolg. Armed with an iron club or mace, he faced Nuada, king of the Tuatha Dé Danann in the first Battle of Magh Tuiredh, and with one great blow he cut off half his shield and severed Nuada's arm at the shoulder.
Ambassadors of the Fir Bolg and Tuath Dé meeting before the Battle of Moytura, an illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911. Cath Maige Tuired (modern spelling: Cath Maighe Tuireadh; transl. "The Battle of Magh Tuireadh") is the name of two saga texts of the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology.